{"id":27397,"date":"2023-08-21T16:20:19","date_gmt":"2023-08-21T16:20:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/?p=27397"},"modified":"2023-08-21T16:20:24","modified_gmt":"2023-08-21T16:20:24","slug":"the-joy-of-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/?p=27397","title":{"rendered":"The Joy of Learning!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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After Sunset from Clingman’s Dome.<\/span><\/p>\n

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This past weekend I joined Jack Graham, Carl Turner and Dr. Tony Rogers in the Great Smoky Mountains for a little photographic R&R. \u00a0Tony was my thoracic surgeon for my heart valve replacement, when I found out he was interested in photography we have struck up a great friendship. \u00a0I also soon discovered that he is a very committed Christian so, as you can imagine, that deepened our friendship even more. \u00a0I have been helping him get ready to get deeper into photography and this trip was our first outing to put all that to work! \u00a0I wanted Carl and Jack to come along as they are also not only great photography friends but dear brothers in the Lord!<\/span><\/p>\n

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I have been praying of weeks about this weekend, as you know the Smokies in Summer is not the best time to go to photograph, but I have been praying that our light and conditions would help us out! \u00a0Boy, did God ever come through. \u00a0i almost never gets every condition and the kind of light I hope for, but this weekend everything was near perfect. \u00a0We got a great sunset from Clingman’s Dome parking lot Friday night, fog in Cades Cove Saturday morning and perfect water levels up stream in Tremont. I was really proud of Tony, for his first outing, he knocked it out of the park! \u00a0I will share some of his images and I think you will agree, that he is learning this new skill set fast! \u00a0Since we met back in May he has been doing a lot of study and was well prepared to try out his new skills!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Sunset from Clingman’s Dome parking area.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The Grist Mill in Cades Cove.<\/span><\/p>\n

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This young deer was shot a few weeks before on a trip out to Yellowstone.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Flat Rock in monochrome on Tremont Branch.<\/span><\/p>\n

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My shot of Tony in deep concentration composing a shot!<\/span><\/p>\n

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We all had a great weekend of fellowship and shooting, it was a great time!<\/span><\/p>\n

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Blessings,<\/span><\/p>\n

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the pilgrim<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  After Sunset from Clingman’s Dome.   This past weekend I joined Jack Graham, Carl Turner and Dr. Tony Rogers in the Great Smoky Mountains for a little photographic R&R. \u00a0Tony was my thoracic surgeon for my heart valve replacement, when I found out he was interested in photography we have struck up a great […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27397"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27404,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27397\/revisions\/27404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}